Business Development Manager - East

Join our friendly and supportive team at Premier Buying Group as a Business Development Manager
, where you'll manage a defined customer base and build strong relationships with veterinary clinics.

In this role you'll drive new business, manage your own pipeline, and promote a range of services that support clinical compliance, pet care excellence, and practice growth. If you're a self-starter with a passion for the veterinary industry and a talent for building lasting partnerships, we’d love to hear from you.

• Planning and executing the appropriate strategies based on an annual target by working cross functionally as well as identifying your own new business opportunities to increase your member base

• Compiling and presenting proposals to practices clearly identifying an understanding of their needs and providing appropriate solutions through Better Buying and Preferred Product Lists.

• Managing and following up all interested leads

• Maintaining the CRM and other reporting platforms to ensure all activity is recorded accurately and all key information relating to your contact with the practice is recorded

• Attend and participate in various sales meetings / congresses throughout the year

• Working with third party vendors to generate leads and opportunities leading to commissions

• Working with manufacturers and third party vendors to generate opportunities for marketing campaigns leading to revenue for the group

• Developing a comprehensive contact strategy for your member

• Promote the use of all member benefits

• Identifying opportunities for other business units where relevan

• Answering any complex customer concerns

• Defending approaches by competitors professionally and using all of the tools provided to you

• Recording of key conversations effectively and sharing the information with the UKAH where appropriate

• Experience in business development or increasing sales within an existing customer base

• Account management. Evidence of building effective contact strategies.

• Veterinary sales / Animal Health experience advantageous

• A self-starter with proven track record of achieving KPIs

• Strong negotiation and interpersonal skills

• Presentation skills

• Organisation, accuracy and attention to detail is extremely important for this role

• Computer literate (fully competent in the use of Microsoft Office Suite and CRM Tools)

• Full UK Driving Licence